FDD and JIRA: Working with Filters

Filters are very powerful. As you can filter use to:

• Display features: present the important information at one glance
• Bulk change features: change for a whole group of features the attributes, move them to another state and so on.
• Reporting: JIRA has reporting capacities as well as JIRA offers an API to retrieve features by filters.

Display features
JIRA offers on the filter view a link to: Set Column Order for filter. (see second image) This allows to add and remove columns as well as setting the order of them.

To display features we need the following columns:

• Feature ID
• Key (JIRA Issue-ID)
• Summary
• Business Activity
• Open Issues
• (Description) if wished

Here the result of or filter sorted by the Feature ID. The links are highlighted yellow.

Bulk change features
Another functionality is to apply changes over a whole group of features. We use it to:

• set the component
• set the work-package (version)
• transition features through workflow
• assign the features to responsible person

JIRA check if everything works correctly and only proposes things that are possible. It's a great way to work efficiently.